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 |Death year=December 1663
 |Probate date=December 29, 1663
 |Deposition start page(s)=HCA 13/63 f.391r Annotate, HCA 13/69 Silver 11 f.2r Annotate,
 |Deposition date(s)=Sep 5 1650, Dec 6 1653

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 James Stanier stated that John Cornelison Yonge John was the commander of the ship the ''Pease of Home'' and that the ship ran aground near Portland, and after refloating, ran aground again in Cornwall in 1648. At the second grounding the ship was allegedly "staved a peeces by the souldiers and countrey people". The ship's lading consisted largely of silk, with ninety odd bales belonging to "Cornelius Gysbertson von Gore and other merchants of Holland."<ref>[[HCA 13/63 f.391r Annotate|HCA 13/63 f.391r]]</ref>
 James Stanier gave his age on November 25th 1652 as forty-six, describing himself as a merchant of London, when he was examined on interrogatories on behalf of the State in the case of "The keepers of the Libertie of England by authoritie of Parliament against the ''Sampson'', ''Salvador'', ''Peter'' et cetera and goods therein".<ref>[[HCA 13/66 Silver IMG 118 07 2466 Annotate|HCA 13/66 Silver IMG 118 07 2466]]</ref>
-The london merchant Giles Vandeputt stated on December 9th 1654 in the High Court of Admiralty in the case of the "Protector against the ''Sampson'' that insurance policies were taken out in London on behalf of the Antwerp merchant Jan Bollart to the value of £400 for the ''Sampson'', £400 for the ''Salvador'' and £400 for the ''Saint George''. Gile Vandeputt claimed that he drew up the policies on October 28th 1652 at the Assurance Office inn London, "All which assurances this deponent caused and procured to be made - and duely drawne as aforesaid, And to be subscribed upon the 29th day of the said moneth of October 1652. by Nicholas Skinner, '''James Stainier'' for and in the name of James Johnson Peter Bultel and others Merchants residing in England, And saith That hee this deponent did thereupon satisfie unto the said Assurers their severall premiums after the rate of 10 ''li'' per Cent and did Charge the same by bill or bills of Exchange upon the said John Bollart, who accordingly payd the said bills.<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.149r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.149r]]</ref>
+[ADD A SUMMARY OF THE CASE AND DATA ABOUT STANIER. ADD ALSO A SECTION ON ROBERT DEMETRIUS' DEPOSITION, WHICH FOLLOWS STANIERS]
 On August 5th 1653 ffrancis Boesdonck, cashier and bookkeeper of the Antwerp merchant James Pincquett, was examined on an allegation in support of "The clayme of James Pincquett merchant of Antwerpe for the plate and sylver in the shipp the ''Morning Starr'' whereof Michael van Lupkin (sic) is master taken by some of the Parliaments shipps".<ref>[[HCA 13/69 Silver 1 f.31v Annotate|HCA 13/69 Silver 1 f.31v]]</ref> Referring to bills of lading for Pincquett's goods, Boesdonck stated that "the said bills of ladeing were sent in a letter by the post or passage boat from Antwerp to Mr Stanier a merchant at London."<ref>[[HCA 13/69 Silver 1 f.32v Annotate|HCA 13/69 Silver 1 f.32v]]</ref>

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 ==Biographical synthesis==
-[[File:James Stanier mw133242.jpg|500px|thumb|left|James Stanier, merchant of London, ca. 1643; [http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitLarge/mw133242/James-Stanier?LinkID=mp53263&role=sit&rNo=0 etching, 141 mm x 95 mm, Wenceslaus Hollar, National Portrait Gallery]]]
+[[File:James Stanier mw133242.jpg|400px|thumb|left|James Stanier, merchant of London, ca. 1643; [http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitLarge/mw133242/James-Stanier?LinkID=mp53263&role=sit&rNo=0 etching, 141 mm x 95 mm, Wenceslaus Hollar, National Portrait Gallery]]]
 James Stanier (Stanyer;  Staniere; Staneire; Stainier; Stanneior; Staneior; Stennior; Jacomo Stanier) (b. ca. 1606, London; m. Thomasin(e) Mead, prob. 1639, daughter of Thomas Mead; bur. Dec. 16 1663, Saint Helens Bishopsgate). Merchant.

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 |Has HCA evidence completed=No
 |Has source comment completed=No
 |Role in Silver Ship litigation=None
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 ==Biographical synthesis==
-[[File:James Stanier mw133242.jpg|300px|thumb|left|James Stanier, merchant of London, ca. 1643; [http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitLarge/mw133242/James-Stanier?LinkID=mp53263&role=sit&rNo=0 etching, 141 mm x 95 mm, Wenceslaus Hollar, National Portrait Gallery]]]
+[[File:James Stanier mw133242.jpg|500px|thumb|left|James Stanier, merchant of London, ca. 1643; [http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitLarge/mw133242/James-Stanier?LinkID=mp53263&role=sit&rNo=0 etching, 141 mm x 95 mm, Wenceslaus Hollar, National Portrait Gallery]]]
 James Stanier (Stanyer;  Staniere; Staneire; Stainier; Stanneior; Staneior; Stennior; Jacomo Stanier) (b. ca. 1606, London; m. Thomasin(e) Mead, prob. 1639, daughter of Thomas Mead; bur. Dec. 16 1663, Saint Helens Bishopsgate). Merchant.

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 Which was this Day read the First and Second time; and, upon the Question, committed to the Committee of the Navy: And
-Ordered, That it be brought in To-morrow Morning, the first Business."<ref>'House of Commons Journal Volume 6: 8 January 1651', in Journal of the House of Commons: Volume 6, 1648-1651 (London, 1802), pp. 520-522. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/commons-jrnl/vol6/pp520-522; accessed 17 October 2016<ref>
+Ordered, That it be brought in To-morrow Morning, the first Business."<ref>'House of Commons Journal Volume 6: 8 January 1651', in Journal of the House of Commons: Volume 6, 1648-1651 (London, 1802), pp. 520-522. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/commons-jrnl/vol6/pp520-522; accessed 17 October 2016</ref>
 '''1652'''

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 [[File:James Stanier mw133242.jpg|300px|thumb|left|James Stanier, merchant of London, ca. 1643; [http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitLarge/mw133242/James-Stanier?LinkID=mp53263&role=sit&rNo=0 etching, 141 mm x 95 mm, Wenceslaus Hollar, National Portrait Gallery]]]
-James Stanier (Stanyer;  Staniere; Staneire; Stanneior; Staneior; Stennior; Jacomo Stanier) (b. ca. 1606, London; m. Thomasin(e) Mead, prob. 1639, daughter of Thomas Mead; bur. Dec. 16 1663, Saint Helens Bishopsgate). Merchant.
+James Stanier (Stanyer;  Staniere; Staneire; Stainier; Stanneior; Staneior; Stennior; Jacomo Stanier) (b. ca. 1606, London; m. Thomasin(e) Mead, prob. 1639, daughter of Thomas Mead; bur. Dec. 16 1663, Saint Helens Bishopsgate). Merchant.
 Father: David Stanier (b. ?; d. 1625) (moved from Cologne to London by 1601) and Mother: Abigail (surname unknown, but possibly Demetrius, the surname of several nephews named in her will) (b. ?; d. 1663). A secondary source states that David Stanier died of the plague in 1625. Abigail Stanier's will was written on January 10th 1663 and proved March 3rd 1663, giving her residence as Bethnal Green in the parish of Stepney.<ref>[http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/1704/31787_A003034-00337?pid=403911&backurl=//search.ancestry.co.uk//cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc%3DJSg95%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource%26usePUBJs%3Dtrue%26uidh%3D000%26rank%3D1%26new%3D1%26msT%3D1%26gsln%3DStanier%26MSAV%3D1%26cp%3D0%26cpxt%3D0%26catBucket%3Drstp%26sbo%3Dt%26gsbco%3DSweden%26noredir%3Dtrue%26gss%3Dangs-c%26pcat%3D36%26h%3D403911%26recoff%3D7%26db%3DLondWills%26indiv%3D1%26ml_rpos%3D1&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=JSg95&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true London Metropolitan Archives and Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, Clerkenwell, London, England; Reference Number: MS 9172/55; Will Number: 128]</ref>
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 James Stanier's trade with Spain appears to have been considerable, and to have stretched from at least the late 1630s to the mid-1650s. A record in the House of Lords from 1646 refers to a legal dispute concerning Spanish trade in 1637.<ref>'House of Lords Journal Volume 8: 4 March 1646', in Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 8, 1645-1647 (London, 1767-1830), pp. 196-200. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/lords-jrnl/vol8/pp196-200; accessed 17 October 2016</ref>
 James Stanier appears to have been briefly arrested and sent to the Tower of London as a result of correspondence with the United Provinces in late 1652. Lorenzo Paulucci, Venetian Secretary in England, wrote to Giovanni Sagredo, the Ambassador in France in December 1652, in connection with the Silver Ship litigation in the High Court of Admiralty. Referred to in the dispatches as "An important merchant of this city named Stanier", the ambassador states that Stanier "wrote to Holland reporting that the affair was about to be settled favourably through the favour of certain members of the Council of State. His letters were opened and he was sent on the sudden to the Tower. (fn. 8) Since it may be inferred from his correspondence that the Dutch are interested in the business, the surrender of the money will prove the more difficult and consequently the misunderstanding between Spain and this country may be expected to grow."<ref>'Venice: December 1652', in Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 28, 1647-1652, ed. Allen B Hinds (London, 1927), pp. 313-328. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/venice/vol28/pp313-328; accessed 17 October 2016</ref>
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 James Stanier gave his age on November 25th 1652 as forty-six, describing himself as a merchant of London, when he was examined on interrogatories on behalf of the State in the case of "The keepers of the Libertie of England by authoritie of Parliament against the ''Sampson'', ''Salvador'', ''Peter'' et cetera and goods therein".<ref>[[HCA 13/66 Silver IMG 118 07 2466 Annotate|HCA 13/66 Silver IMG 118 07 2466]]</ref>
 On August 5th 1653 ffrancis Boesdonck, cashier and bookkeeper of the Antwerp merchant James Pincquett, was examined on an allegation in support of "The clayme of James Pincquett merchant of Antwerpe for the plate and sylver in the shipp the ''Morning Starr'' whereof Michael van Lupkin (sic) is master taken by some of the Parliaments shipps".<ref>[[HCA 13/69 Silver 1 f.31v Annotate|HCA 13/69 Silver 1 f.31v]]</ref> Referring to bills of lading for Pincquett's goods, Boesdonck stated that "the said bills of ladeing were sent in a letter by the post or passage boat from Antwerp to Mr Stanier a merchant at London."<ref>[[HCA 13/69 Silver 1 f.32v Annotate|HCA 13/69 Silver 1 f.32v]]</ref>
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 PROB 11/212/567 Will of Richard Deards, Gentleman of Great Dunmow, Essex 01 June 1650
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	'''Jacomo Stanier'''.<ref>'State Papers, 1653: June (3 of 5)', in A Collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe, Volume 1, 1638-1653, ed. Thomas Birch (London, 1742), pp. 289-300. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/thurloe-papers/vol1/pp289-300; accessed 17 October 2016</ref>		'''Jacomo Stanier'''.<ref>'State Papers, 1653: June (3 of 5)', in A Collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe, Volume 1, 1638-1653, ed. Thomas Birch (London, 1742), pp. 289-300. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/thurloe-papers/vol1/pp289-300; accessed 17 October 2016</ref>
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		+	Despite the implication that Mr Cornelis and Henry Hilleweren were citizens of the United Provinces, it appears that they were based in Antwerp. A Hendrick van Hillewerven is listed as an ordinary officer of the Antwerp mint in a document dated August 5th 1654.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/bulletinetannal08belggoog#page/n161/mode/2up Annales de l'académie d'archéologie de Belgique, 2nd series, vol.10 (Anvers, 1874), pp.154-155]</ref> According to testimony in the High Court of Admiralty Cornelius Hillewervin (alt. Hill wer den Ven) lived in Antwerp as a merchant, as did Henry Hillewervin. They were "merchants of great quality residing at Antwerpe and drive a great trade to Cadiz and Saint Lucar in Spaine where they have their factors that receyve goods for their accompt out of fflanders and England and make them returnes in moneyes and sylver"<ref>[[HCA 13/69 Silver 12 f.5r Annotate\|HCA 13/69 Silver 12 f.5r]]</ref>. The two men were claimants for silver in the ''Morning Star'' (Master: Michael van Lubkin).<ref>[[HCA 13/69 Silver 0 IMG 118 07 2523 Annotate\|HCA 13/69 Silver 0 IMG 118 07 2523]]</ref> According to Michael van Lubkin, master of the Morning Star, Cornelius and Henry Hille wer den Ven were fflandrians by birth and merchants of Antwerp.<ref>[[HCA 13/69 Silver 0 IMG 118 07 2523 Annotate\|HCA 13/69 Silver 0 IMG 118 07 2523]]</ref> Sandra van Ginhoven (XXX) identifies Hendrick Hillewereven as a private collector and merchant who was a client of the Antwerp based art dealer Guilliam Forchondt.<ref>[https://www.de-zeventiende-eeuw.nl/articles/10.18352/dze.10116/ Sandra van Ginhoven, Guilliam Forchondt and the role of the Greater Netherlands in the dissemination of Flemish art in Latin America, De Seventiende Eeuw, online resource, undated]</ref> Interestingly, there is a C17th text by Balthasar Moretus titled "Reijse van Antwerpen op Italien ghedaen door Balthasar Moretus le jeun '''in compagnie van mijn heer Hillewerven''', mijnheer van Immerseel, mijn heer Torlinckx en mijn heer Petrus Goos (1664-1665)"

	Deposing in the High Court of Admiralty in connection with the Silver Ships, James Stanier stated on December 1653 in support of Bruges merchant Paulus Cobrisse's claim, that "the sayd Pedro Calvo had divers effects in his hands of great value of the manu facture of England sent to him by this respondent from this port of London in severall shipps to Cadiz for the producents accompt that is to say 29 bales of Norwich stuffs, bayes, perpetuances and some worsted stockins of the cleare value of 2462 ''li''. 1 ''s''. 10 ''d'' laden aboard the ''Sampson'' of Hamburgh Otto George Master about the month of September. 1648. And 21 bales more of bayes and 6 trunks of stockins of the value of 2476 ''li''. 14 ''s''. 8 ''d''. sterling laden aboard the Culpepper John Thomas Commander about the month of October 1648. and 25. bales more of the stuffs and bayes of the value of 2222. ''li'' 16 ''s''. 7 ''d'' sterling laden about January 1649. put aboard the shipp ''Confidence'' Thomas Crowder commander, and the rest aboard the ''Maydenhead'' James Lutton commmander. A Particular whereof faithfully extracted out of this deponents Leiger he hath fomerly left in the Registry of this Court videlicet upon his examination in the producents clayme for his sylver moneys in the ''Sampson''.<ref>[[HCA 13/69 Silver 11 f.3r Annotate\|HCA 13/69 Silver 11 f.3r]]</ref>		Deposing in the High Court of Admiralty in connection with the Silver Ships, James Stanier stated on December 1653 in support of Bruges merchant Paulus Cobrisse's claim, that "the sayd Pedro Calvo had divers effects in his hands of great value of the manu facture of England sent to him by this respondent from this port of London in severall shipps to Cadiz for the producents accompt that is to say 29 bales of Norwich stuffs, bayes, perpetuances and some worsted stockins of the cleare value of 2462 ''li''. 1 ''s''. 10 ''d'' laden aboard the ''Sampson'' of Hamburgh Otto George Master about the month of September. 1648. And 21 bales more of bayes and 6 trunks of stockins of the value of 2476 ''li''. 14 ''s''. 8 ''d''. sterling laden aboard the Culpepper John Thomas Commander about the month of October 1648. and 25. bales more of the stuffs and bayes of the value of 2222. ''li'' 16 ''s''. 7 ''d'' sterling laden about January 1649. put aboard the shipp ''Confidence'' Thomas Crowder commander, and the rest aboard the ''Maydenhead'' James Lutton commmander. A Particular whereof faithfully extracted out of this deponents Leiger he hath fomerly left in the Registry of this Court videlicet upon his examination in the producents clayme for his sylver moneys in the ''Sampson''.<ref>[[HCA 13/69 Silver 11 f.3r Annotate\|HCA 13/69 Silver 11 f.3r]]</ref>

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 James Stanier's trade with Spain appears to have been considerable, and to have stretched from at least the late 1630s to the mid-1650s. A record in the House of Lords from 1646 refers to a legal dispute concerning Spanish trade in 1637.<ref>'House of Lords Journal Volume 8: 4 March 1646', in Journal of the House of Lords: Volume 8, 1645-1647 (London, 1767-1830), pp. 196-200. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/lords-jrnl/vol8/pp196-200; accessed 17 October 2016</ref>
-James Stanier is mentioned in the dispatches of the Venetian Secretary in England to Venice to London in December 1652 in connection with the Silver Ship litigation in the High Court of Admiralty. Referred to in the dispatches as "An important merchant of this city named Stanier", the ambassador states that Stanier "wrote to Holland reporting that the affair was about to be settled favourably through the favour of certain members of the Council of State. His letters were opened and he was sent on the sudden to the Tower. (fn. 8) Since it may be inferred from his correspondence that the Dutch are interested in the business, the surrender of the money will prove the more difficult and consequently the misunderstanding between Spain and this country may be expected to grow."<ref>'Venice: December 1652', in Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 28, 1647-1652, ed. Allen B Hinds (London, 1927), pp. 313-328. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/venice/vol28/pp313-328; accessed 17 October 2016</ref>
+James Stanier appears to have been briefly arrested and sent to the Tower of London as a result of correspondence with the United Provinces in late 1652. Lorenzo Paulucci, Venetian Secretary in England, wrote to Giovanni Sagredo, the Ambassador in France in December 1652, in connection with the Silver Ship litigation in the High Court of Admiralty. Referred to in the dispatches as "An important merchant of this city named Stanier", the ambassador states that Stanier "wrote to Holland reporting that the affair was about to be settled favourably through the favour of certain members of the Council of State. His letters were opened and he was sent on the sudden to the Tower. (fn. 8) Since it may be inferred from his correspondence that the Dutch are interested in the business, the surrender of the money will prove the more difficult and consequently the misunderstanding between Spain and this country may be expected to grow."<ref>'Venice: December 1652', in Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 28, 1647-1652, ed. Allen B Hinds (London, 1927), pp. 313-328. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/venice/vol28/pp313-328; accessed 17 October 2016</ref>
 Deposing in the High Court of Admiralty in connection with the Silver Ships, James Stanier stated on December 1653 in support of Bruges merchant Paulus Cobrisse's claim, that "the sayd Pedro Calvo had divers effects in his hands of great value of the manu facture of England sent to him by this respondent from this port of London in severall shipps to Cadiz for the producents accompt that is to say 29 bales of Norwich stuffs, bayes, perpetuances and some worsted stockins of the cleare value of 2462 ''li''. 1 ''s''. 10 ''d'' laden aboard the ''Sampson'' of Hamburgh Otto George Master about the month of September. 1648. And 21 bales more of bayes and 6 trunks of stockins of the value of 2476 ''li''. 14 ''s''. 8 ''d''. sterling laden aboard the Culpepper John Thomas Commander about the month of October 1648.  and 25. bales more of the stuffs and bayes of the value of 2222. ''li'' 16 ''s''. 7 ''d'' sterling laden about January 1649. put aboard the shipp ''Confidence'' Thomas Crowder commander, and the rest aboard the ''Maydenhead'' James Lutton commmander. A Particular whereof faithfully extracted out of this deponents Leiger he hath fomerly left in the Registry of  this Court videlicet upon his examination in the producents clayme for his sylver moneys in the ''Sampson''.<ref>[[HCA 13/69 Silver 11 f.3r Annotate|HCA 13/69 Silver 11 f.3r]]</ref>
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 '''1652'''
-"'''Dec. 3rd. 1652'''. Council of State. Day's Proceedings.
+"<u>Dec. 3rd. 1652.</u> Council of State. Day's Proceedings.
 . Cols. Thompson, Fielder, and Purefoy, Mr. Scott, Allein, and Lister to be a Committee to examine further '''Jacomo Stanier''', in accordance with an order of Parliament of December 1st. [I. 68, pp. 11-17.]"<ref>'Volume 26: December and Undated, 1652. 1652', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum, 1652-3, ed. Mary Anne Everett Green (London, 1878), pp. 1-74. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/interregnum/1652-3/pp1-74; accessed 17 October 2016</ref>
-"'''Dec 9. 1652.'''
+"<u>Dec 9. 1652.</u>
 . Mr. Scott to report the examination of '''Mr. Stanier''' to Parliament, according to their order."<ref>'Volume 26: December and Undated, 1652. 1652', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum, 1652-3, ed. Mary Anne Everett Green (London, 1878), pp. 1-74. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/interregnum/1652-3/pp1-74; accessed 17 October 2016</ref>
-'''Dec.  21 . 1652.'''
+<u>Dec. 21. 1652.</u>
 . The bills of lading taken from '''James Stanier''' on his apprehension to be restored to him, after a list has been first taken of them, and he is to give a receipt for them."<ref>'Volume 26: December and Undated, 1652. 1652', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Interregnum, 1652-3, ed. Mary Anne Everett Green (London, 1878), pp. 1-74. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/interregnum/1652-3/pp1-74; accessed 17 October 2016</ref>
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 ...Nothing has yet been settled about the Spanish pieces of eight, the government here declaring that sufficient proof has not been offered that they belong to subjects of his Catholic Majesty. '''An important merchant of this city named Stanier''' wrote to Holland reporting that the affair was about to be settled favourably through the favour of certain members of the Council of State. His letters were opened and he was sent on the sudden to the Tower. (fn. 8) Since it may be inferred from his correspondence that the Dutch are interested in the business, the surrender of the money will prove the more difficult and consequently the misunderstanding between Spain and this country may be expected to grow...."<ref>'Venice: December 1652', in Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 28, 1647-1652, ed. Allen B Hinds (London, 1927), pp. 313-328. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/venice/vol28/pp313-328; accessed 17 October 2016</ref>
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